If you’ve read my post Expat and Gay in Japan: An Introduction, you’ll remember that there are two main ways that gay men meet in Japan: at bars or online. It’s a sign of the times, as LGBT people often do not live openly here.

If you’re in Japan, the easiest way to access the gay world is by using a smartphone application.

This isn't the first time we've seen die-hard back in November.

While our natural inclination to these scenarios is to sit back, point and laugh (and boy, do we sit back, point and laugh), it raises some interesting philosophical questions about marrying inanimate objects.On Monday, a small plane with two adults and two young children disappeared from radar over the Bermuda Triangle.The Coast Guard has recovered parts from the plane but are still searching for the passengers, Jennifer Blumin, 40, her 3 and 4-year-old sons, and Nathan Ulrich, 52.The pillow cover supposedly has an image of a character named Fate Testarossa from the anime series .The story is reminiscent of a New York Times Magazine piece I wrote last year; the Metro article also mentions a story we originally posted on Boing Boing in November about a guy who married a character in his Nintendo DS dating sim.Applications like the Japanese-created 9monsters or others like function sort of like a “gay Facebook”.